Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Micromax, a well known Indian smartphone maker was quiet from last few months in the smartphone market as it is facing very tough competition from some of the Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Lenovo, Oppo and many more in the country. These companies has affected the micromax's share in the smartphone market to a great extent. People usually prefer Chinese smartphones in place of these. But the company is trying to get it's reputation back in market. That's why it launched a new smartphone in the Indian market today. The smartphone is known as Micromax dual 5. According to company, this is a camera centric smartphone as it comes with dual rear camera setup. The smartphone is priced at 25000 INR and will be exclusively available online as well as offline mode. So let's discuss some of the specs of the device.

Micromax Dual 5 has a metallic design which looks really premium. The phone feels really solid in hand. The build quality of the phone is good.

On front it has 5.5 inch Full HD AMOLED display which is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. On front it also has 13 MP front camera along with flash and earpiece. It also has navigation keys at the front.

On top it has 3.5 mm headphone jack and IR Blaster. On right it has power button and volume rockers. On bottom it has USB type-C port, speaker and microphone. On left it has SIM tray and a special key which we can customize according to our choice.

At back it has dual 13MP rear camera along with dual LED flash. It has a rear facing fingerprint sensor. The build quality of the phone is really good. Overall there is no complain regarding the design of the phone.

Display

Micromax Dual 5 has a 5.5 inch full HD AMOLED display. The screen has a resolution of 1320*1080 pixels. The display is protected by 2.5D corning Gorilla Glass 5. So the glass will be slightly curved at the edges. The quality of the display will be good﻿ as it has a AMOLED display. The screen should be easily visible in direct sunlight. The colors will be look good on the phone. Overall Micromax Dual 5 is equipped with a good display.

Processor

Micromax Dual 5 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 652 chipset. This chipset is really good one as it is equipped in many of the other mid range smartphones and they performed really well. This chipset is based on octa core processor with four cortex A-72 cores and four cortex A-53 cores. There will be no lags in day to day usage of the phone. The phone should perform all the tasks without any issues.

For good graphics this device is powered by Adreno 510 GPU which can handle all graphic intensive works without any issues. This device should play all the heavy games like Asphalt 8, Nova 3, Modern Combat 5 and many more without any issues. There should be no lags and frame drops in the game play. So overall the device is equipped with a good processor.

Camera

The device is having very interesting rear camera. It has all the features what a camera centric smartphone should have. The device is having a dual rear camera setup. Both the sensors are of 13MP. Among these two sensors one is a color sensor and the other being a monochrome sensor. These two sensors combine their two images into one and produce a better image after combination. The rear camera has an aperture size of f/1.8, which is good. So the rear camera will allow more light to enter the sensor for better detailing. Also the camera has phase detection autofocus and dual LED flash. The camera app is really simple. The camera is also having a pro mode in which we can adjust many things according to our choice like exposure, ISO levels, contrast and many more things of the camera which gives a full camera like feeling. The rear camera can record videos upto 4K. The device is equipped with a 13MP secondary camera with flash. This camera can record videos upto full HD.

Operating system

Micromax Dual 5 is powered by the Micromax's self customized operating system which is based on Android v6.0.1. The user interface of the phone is good. There are no lags whatsoever in normal usage of the device. It also handles all the tasks without any issues. We expect that the device might come with android nougat but it is coming with marshmallow. But the device will get Android Nougat update hopefully.

Battery life

The device is equipped with 3200 mah non removable battery. So the battery life of the device should be good. It should easily last for a single day. But these days we usually see devices with massive batteries something around 4000 mah. This battery can easily last for 1.5 day. But even a full day's battery life is decent. This phone also supports fast charging 3.0 which charges phone really fast.

Security

The company is saying that the phone is really secured. The phone is equipped with a special chip which controls all this security stuff. It secures all our fingerprints and passwords. It comes with a special operating system which unlocks when we touch a specific fingerprint. We can add a specific fingerprint to this mode. If we unlock the phone with that particular fingerprint the phone automatically opens that particular operating system. In this OS we can add our private things like photos, videos and apps. We can add our payment apps to this system for secure payments. And apps in this OS will not be shown in the normal OS. So this is really good for security.

Also this device has a special key on left side. We can customize this key according to our choice. We can use it for many purposes like cleaning apps, taking photo, switching on torch and many more.

Final verdict

Micromax Dual 5 is priced at 25000 INR. At this price it competes with those of Oneplus 3, Leeco Le Max 2, Xiaomi Mi 5 and Honor 8. Among them Honor 8 is a camera centric smartphone. Micromax Dual 5 is a good device but a overpriced smartphone. We have much better choices at this price point like Oneplus 3 and Leeco Le max 2 which are powered by Snapdragon 820 and are really famous for their great performance. No doubt the phone is having a good display, fast processor and a good camera but spending 25000 INR for a Micromax device with these specs is little impractical. The phone is also having some great features like security chip and special key on left side. Now the whole thing depends on the camera performance of Micromax dual 5. The camera performance of the device should have to be really good to be considered in this price range otherwise the phone won't be a good buy at this price. But it is good to see that the Micromax is doing something to get it's prestige back in the market.

Friday, 24 March 2017

Xiaomi is very well known company for affordable smartphones, it has given many smartphones in budget segment like Redmi 1, Redmi 2, Redmi 3s and now it's turn for Redmi 4a. Xiaomi launched Redmi 4a this week in India in budget segment. Redmi 4a is the most affordable among above listed phones. Xiaomi launched this phone at 6000 INR in India. The phone is available on amazon through flash sale. So let's see some of the specs of the phone and see whether this phone is good or bad according to the price.

Redmi Note 4a is a 5 inch device. The device has a plastic body. So the phone's build quality us not that much great as nowadays we usually see phones with metallic build. But the phone is really compact as it has a 5 inch size. The phone is also really light at just 130 grams weight. The device is 8.5 mm thick. On top the phone has 3.5 mm jack, secondary noise cancellation and IR blaster. On right it has volume rockers and power button. On bottom it has USB port and microphone. On left side it has SIM tray. The phone also has chamfered edges which looks really good. This phone is one of the rarest phones to hold IR blaster in the device. So overall the device looks really good and feels premium in hands.

Display

Redmi 4a has a HD IPS LCD display. It has a resolution of 720p. The size of display is 5.0 inch. The resolution of the display is low as nowadays we normally see full HD display but we can't complain at this price point. The display should be good in indoors but in outdoors I can't say anything. Users can face problems while seeing display in direct sunlight.

Processor

The phone is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 425 chipset which is based on an quad core processor with each cortex A-53 core cloaked at 1.4 GHz. The processor should be good in normal day to day usage. There should be no lags in normal usage. It should play casual games without any issues. But while playing heavy games the phone can face problems as it is having very basic processor.

User interface

Redmi 4a is powered by MIUI 8 which is based on android marshmallow v6.0.1. The user interface of the device will be same as those of other xiaomi devices. The user interface is good as it has many features. There will be some of bloatware pre installed with the device. The UI has lot of themes also, so this is also good. So overall the experience with MIUI should be good without any lags in normal day to day usage.

Battery

Redmi 4a is powered by the non removable 3120 mah battery. The battery life of the device should be good. It should easily last for a single day on a typical day's usage for a moderate user on a single charge. But for heavy users there may be some problem. The device also doesn't support any quick charging so it may take some time to charge phone. But we can't expect more at this price.

Final verdict

Redmi 4a is a really good device at the price. There is no such device at this price. It has all the features which a good smartphone should have. It has good processor, good design, good display, compact size at just 6000 INR. So this is really good. It has IR blaster which is not available in some of very premium devices. So expecting something more than this is not justifiable. But the device is available on Amazon through flash sale, so it is really difficult to grab the device. But the device is really value for money at this price point. We can't expect more at this price. But there are some features missing in the device like fingerprint sensor. At 7000 INR we can also go for Redmi 3s if we want slightly better processor, rear camera and battery life,while all other features are more or less similar to this device. But this device is also not a bad one, if you have a strictly tight budget you can also go for this device. My personal choice goes with Redmi 3s because spending 1k more is not a very big thing.

Friday, 10 March 2017

Lenovo is a Chinese company which is very renowned for it's PC market. From last three four years it is also launching many android smartphones in the market. The company uses it's self customized user interface based on android in it's smartphones. So the smartphone should get regular software updates from time to time. The company should also provide security updates every month. The company make many promises about the software updates at the launch of the smartphones. For 2-3 months only after the launch the company provide software updates but after that the company provide updates very rarely. So I have a big question from Lenovo that Please provide updates for it's smartphones and if it can't provide these updates, please simply don't make false promises and stop saying that we keep our phones updated.

So based on this, Ash from C4etech has posted a video on it's YouTube channel. I am linking this video here so that you can have better understanding about what I would like to convey.

Thursday, 9 March 2017

We know that this Xiaomi didn't showcase any thing at the MWC 2017 this year. But while the MWC was going on, it held it's own event at Beijing, China. From very long, we were getting many rumors regarding the Xiaomi's self built chipset and now actually the company has unveiled the chipset at it's own Beijing Event.

We were getting many teasers regarding a powerful chipset which would be used in the processor. But the company hasn't showcased it yet and actually the company unveiled a simple basic type of chip for it's devices at this event at Beijing.

The chipset which was unveiled is known as Surge S1. This chipset is based on 28 nm architecture. The Surge S1 has eight cores among which four cores are cloaked at 2.2 GHz and the other four are cloaked at 1.4GHz. This uses Mali-T860MP4 GPU for graphics. This will be used in the budget and mid range Xiaomi devices. This will compete with the chipsets such as Snapdragon 430, Mediatek Helio P10 and Exynos 7580. Xiaomi using this chipset has launched a new smartphone at the same event. The device is known as Xiaomi Mi 5C. I will talk about this device in the next part.Xiaomi didn't launch the powerful chipset on which it is working. That chipset is rumored to be called Pinecone chip. The chipset will be made on 10nm architecture and will be used in Xiaomi's flagship devices. Actually Xiaomi at this event was not ready for a device which can have this chipset. So Xiaomi didn't unveiled the chip. But this chipset is rumored to be use in Xiaomi's next flagship that is Xiaomi Mi 6. Xiaomi Mi 5C

Xiaomi, at it's event at Beijing launched a device which has Xiaomi's first self built chip that is Surge S1. The device is known as Xiaomi Mi 5C. The device has a screen size identical to Xiaomi Mi 5 that is 5.15 inch. It has IPS LCD type screen which has full HD resolution. The device uses the Surge S1 chip as already mentioned. It weighs 135 grams and has 7.1mm thickness. The device has 3GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.

It has a 12MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture and phase detection autofocus but lacks OIS. It has a secondary camera of 8MP with f/2.2 aperture. It packs 2680 mah non removable battery. It also supports fast charging, it charges the phone at 9V,2A. It comes with MIUI 8 out of the box. The phone also has front facing fingerprint sensor which is embedded in the home button just like Xiaomi Mi 5. Also it has all other basic sensors and doesn't skip on any sensor.

Xiaomi launched this device only for China and didn't mention anything about the Global availability. It is priced at 1500 Yuan and is available in Black, Gold and Rose Gold.

Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Technology has become a very important component of our life. Everyday we came across some new gadgets which are based on technology. One of these gadgets is Smartphone which has become the most prominent tech these days. Everyone has smartphones these days. So smartphones are in a great demand. These smartphones have many functions. But due to human nature everyone want additional features in their smartphones. Keeping in mind this, smartphone companies launch successor to their previous smartphone models with some improvements.

Various smartphone announcement events happen every year across the globe. One of them is Mobile World Congress (MWC) which is the main mobile event and occurs every year. This event starts every year in the late February and ends in early march. In this event many smartphone companies unveiled their smartphones. This year MWC held from 27th Feb to 2nd March at Barcelona. And many companies unveiled their smartphones there this year. The smartphones companies which unveiled their smartphones at MWC are Nokia, BlackBerry, Huawei, LG, Sony, Motorola, Nubia, ZTE and many more. Samsung usually unveils it's flagship smartphone every year in this MWC. But due to the incident of Galaxy Note 7 last year it wants to give some more time on it's new flagship that is Samsung Galaxy S8. Without wasting further time lets see some of the specs of the smartphones unveiled by various companies at MWC 2017.

BlackBerry

Few years back BlackBerry was one of the top smartphone maker. Their smartphones got very much famous due to it's unique design and special keyboard. But later on it's market got down due to launch of various large sized android phones which are full touch screen. At the end BlackBerry has no choice instead of selling their smartphone business to TCL communication and focus on software instead.

The new smartphone we see today is the last smartphone from Blackberry that's why it has that distinctive keyboard. This new phone is known as BlackBerry KeyOne. It has 4.5 inch display which has 1080 x 1620 resolution. This screen is IPS LCD type screen. The device has aluminum frame and textured back. The device is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 625 chipset with Adreno 506 GPU. The phone comes with 32 GB of internal storage and 3GB of RAM. Memory can also be expanded with micro SD card upto 256 GB. It has 12MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture with phase detection autofocus, dual tone dual LED flash and 8 MP secondary camera with 1.12µm pixel size.

The phone has 3505 mah non removable battery. It has USB type-C connector. Also it supports Quick charging 3.0. It also has all the sensors such as gyro, proximity, accelerometer, fingerprint and compass. It also supports NFC. It comes only in one color that is black.

The keyboard used on this is backlit. It reminds us of the old keyboards which were used in earlier blackberry smartphones. But the keyboard used is highly advanced, it immediately responds as soon as we touch the key. The OS used here is Android 7.1 which is really surprising. Also there is some blackberry stuff in the OS.

And lastly the phone will be available from April and will be priced under $600.

LG

LG is also one of the companies which unveil it's flagship phone at MWC every year. LG has unveiled LG G6 at MWC 2017. It is successor to the last year launched LG G5. LG introduced the modular concept in LG G5 but it didn't get too well due to it's cons. That's why it is not putting this modular technology in LG G6.

LG G6 is said to be having Full-Vision display. The company is calling it a full aviation display as the display covers most of the part in front. The device is having 5.7 inch IPS LCD display. The aspect ratio of it's display is 18:9 and resolution of 2880 x 1440 pixels. The display is protected by Gorilla Glass 3 and back is protected by Gorilla Glass 5.

LG G6 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 821 processor as early patches of new Snapdragon 835 will be taken by Samsung. So it forced the company to use Snapdragon 821 in it's flagship. By the way this processor is based on a quad core processor with two kryo cores cloaked at 2.35 GHz and other two kryo cores cloaked at 1.6 GHz. The device comes with Android 7.0 out of the box. The device is having dual rear camera setup with two lens, both of them are 13MP among them one is main one and other is basic. The main one has f/1.8 aperture with OIS and other having f/2.4 aperture but it lacks OIS. The autofocus used is Laser autofocus. The dual camera setup was earlier used in LG V20 and LG G5 and it is found to be really successful. The secondary camera is of 5MP with f/2.2 aperture.

The device is dust and water resistant also this time. The battery used is non removable 3300 mah battery. The phone weighs about 163 grams and has thickness of 7.9 mm. The device is having 4GB of RAM with 32GB/64GB of internal storage.

Motorola

Motorola, a company owned by Lenovo also unveiled some of it's smartphones at MWC 2017. We all know about the G series of Motorola which is very famous. We know that Motorola is the first company to make a phone but in past the company faced many problems due to which it incurred many losses. The Motorola failed to sell many smartphones from 2007 to 2009 and this is the reason of company's downfall. But in 2013 it made a very good comeback with launch of it's first G series smartphone that is Moto G. The smartphone got much success and became very famous.

Due to this success it launched many successors to Moto G. It has already launched 4 generations of Moto G and now it's time for the 5th generation that is Moto G5. Company unveiled the Moto G5 at MWC 2017. Motorola actually unveiled two versions that are Moto G5 and G5 plus. This time Moto has chosen to go with metal build that's why Moto G5 and G5 plus has full metal body.

Moto G5: Moto G5 has full metal body. It has 5.0 inch IPS LCD full HD display. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The phone is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 430 chipset running on octa core processor with each cortex A-53 core cloaked at 1.4 GHz. The GPU used is Adreno 505. The device comes with 2GB of RAM and 16GB and 32GB of internal storage, which can be expanded via micro SD upto 256 GB. The device has a 13 MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, phase detection autofocus and dual tone dual LED flash. The secondary camera is of 5 MP with f/2.2 aperture. The device has front facing fingerprint sensor. It also has all other sensors such as gyro, proximity, accelerometer, compass. The device is having 2800 mah non-removable battery. It also supports fast charging. The phone weighs 145 grams and is about 9.5 mm thick. The device comes with Android 7.0 out of the box. It comes in two colors that are Lunar Grey and Fine Blue.

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Moto G5 Plus:Moto G5 Plus also has metal build which looks really premium. The device is having 5.2 inch IPS LCD full HD display. The device is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 625 chipset which is based on octa core processor with each cortex A-53 core cloaked at 2.0 GHz. The GPU used is Adreno 506. The device comes in 2GB, 3GB and 4GB RAM options. The device has a 12 MP rear camera with f/1.7 aperture, phase detection autofocus and dual tone dual LED flash. The rear camera of the device will be really awesome. It has secondary camera of 5MP with f/2.2 aperture. The device also has front facing fingerprint sensor. It also doesn't skip on any other basic sensor, it has all the basic sensors. The﻿ device is having 3000 mah non removable battery. It also supports fast charging which is said to charge the phone at 10W. The device weighs 155 grams and is about 7.7 mm thick. The device is also having NFC support but it's availability is market dependent. The device comes with Android 7.0 out of the box. It comes in two colors that are Lunar Grey and Fine Blue.

Huawei

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Last year Huawei got really famous due to it's flagship device Huawei P9 which is a camera centric phone. This year company has unveiled the successor to this Huawei P9 at MWC 2017. The device is named Huawei P10.

Huawei P10:Huawei P10, the company's new flagship has got lot of improvements from it's predecessor. It is having some refreshed design with 2.5D glass at the front. It has full metal back with plastic at top and bottom. The design of the phone looks really premium. The device is powered by Kirin 960 chipset which is based on octa core processor with four Cortex A-73 cores cloaked at 2.4 GHz and four cortex A-53 cores cloaked at 1.8 GHz. The phone is powered by Mali-G71 MP8 GPU. The screen of the phone is 5.1 inch which has IPS LCD type display with full HD resolution. The display is protected by Gorilla Glass 5. The device is powered by Huawei own emotion UI which is based on Android Nougat 7.0. The device uses the same Leica camera technology which was used on Huawei P9. Huawei P9 was the first mobile to use monochrome + color, dual lens system. It got really successful that's why Huawei P10 also uses it. Huawei P10 uses the same camera setup as Mate 9 ,12 MP color and 20 MP monochrome lens. Both have f/2.2 aperture size but only the color one is having OIS. The device has a secondary camera of 5 MP with f/1.9 aperture. This time the front camera also supports Leica setup. It has 3200 mah non removable battery and also supports super charge. The phone is having front facing fingerprint sensor which is embedded in the home button. It has all other basic sensors. This home key can be used for multipurpose which means one tap for back, long press for home and slide for task switcher.

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Huawei P10 plus:Just like previous year Huawei this year also unveiled a higher version of it's flagship which is known as Huawei P10 plus. The device is somewhat same in appearance to the Huawei P10 but with a bigger screen size. Huawei P10 has the same design as that of Huawei P10. Huawei P10 plus has a 5.5 inch IPS LCD display. The resolution of the display is 2K. The display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The device is powered by the same processor as Huawei P10. The device comes in two memory options that are 64 GB internal, 4 GB RAM and 128 GB internal,6 GB RAM. The device is having the same camera as that of Huawei P10 but the only difference is that the rear camera setup of this one is having f/1.8 aperture. The device is having a non removable 3750 mah battery. All other things are common in both of the phones.

Nokia

Nokia was one of the most prominent brand name in the smartphone history. It was well known for it's feature phones all around the globe. The company was leading the phone market all around the globe. But with the transformation of phone market to smartphones the Nokia's hold on the smartphone market weakens. The launch of various android powered smartphones reduced the sales of Nokia phones. In competition to these android phones Nokia introduced it's Lumina series which are powered by windows software. But it didn't work too well and at last Nokia has to sell it's smartphone business to Microsoft with a contract. Now that contract has ended so company is trying to make a comeback in the market. So in 2017 Q1 Nokia is announcing it's Android powered smartphones.

Nokia has already launched Nokia 6 last month in China﻿ and it didn't mention anything about the global availability. And now at MWC 2017, Nokia announced two more android devices that are Nokia 3 and Nokia 5. And it also relaunched one of it's previous feature phones that is Nokia 3310.

Nokia 5:Nokia 5 is 5.2 inch device. The device has a IPS LCD type display and has HD resolution﻿. The display is protected by corning gorilla glass. The device is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 430 chipset which is based on a octa core processor with eight cortex A-53 cores cloaked at 1.4 GHz. There is also Adreno 505 GPU. The device has a aluminum unibody design. So it looks premium in hands. It has a 13 MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture with phase detection autofocus and dual tone LED flash. The secondary camera is of 8 MP with f/2.0 aperture. The device comes with 16 GB of internal storage and 2 GB of RAM. The phone is powered by Android Nougat 7.1 and company is promising to update the software regularly. The device comes with 3000 mah non removable battery. The device has front facing fingerprint sensor and has all other basic sensors.

Nokia 3: Nokia 3 is another device which company unveiled alongside Nokia 5. Nokia 3 is having the design like higher end versions of Lumina series, the phone has an aluminum frame. On front it has 5 inch HD display. The display is IPS LCD type and is protected by the Gorilla glass. It has 8 MP rear camera and 8 MP secondary camera while all other camera's features are same as Nokia 5. The device is powered by a quad core Mediatek chipset and has Mali-T720MP2 GPU. The phone also comes with 2GB of RAM and 16 GB of onboard storage. It also comes with Android 7.1 out of the box.

Nokia 3310:Nokia 3310 is very basic type of feature phone. There is no point of relaunching this device at this time where all use smartphones. The device is only for basic work like calling and playing very basic older games such as Snake, Paris, space impact. The device doesn't even have the Bluetooth in the device. It has a 900 mah removable battery. This type of phone is totally useless at this point of time.

Sony

Now it's time to get a look at Sony's flagship phones. This year Sony unveiled two flagship smartphones at MWC 2017 that are Sony Xperia XZ Premium and Sony Xperia XZs. Also it unveiled two other mid range smartphones at MWC 2017 that are Sony Xperia XA1and XA1 Ultra. So let's have a look at them.

Sony Xperia XZ Premium:Sony Xperia XZ Premium is the new flagship of the Sony. It has a 5.5 inch screen size. The Phone has a full glass design which runs all around the phone and is protected by Gorilla Glass 5. The device is a little bit heavy with 195 grams weight and 7.9 mm thick. It is the second phone from the Sony which has a 4K display. The display is IPS LCD type and has a resolution of 3840 x﻿ 2160 pixels. The phone is powered by the Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chipset which is the latest chipset from Snapdragon. This chipset is based on the octa core processor with four Kryo cores cloaked at 2.45 GHz and four Kryo cores cloaked 1.9 GHz. The phone has a Adreno 540 GPU. The phone has 64 GB of internal storage and 4 GB of RAM. The storage can be expanded with micro SD upto 256 GB. The phone has a 19 MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, phase detection autofocus and Laser autofocus and LED flash. The phone can record 4K video @ 30fps. The most important feature of the phone is that it can record video slo mo video @ 960fps and this is 4 times slower than any video which any smartphone's camera can record now. This slo mo video is recorded at 720p. This camera features the Electronic Image Stabilization technology for better photography. The phone also has a 13 MP secondary camera with f/2.0 aperture. The phone comes with Android Nougat 7.1 out of the box. The device is packed with non removable 3230 mah battery. It also supports Qualcomm's quick charging 3.0. The phone has a fingerprint sensor which is embedded in the power button. As this device is having Snapdragon 835 chipset it will be available very late in the market.

Sony Xperia XZ:Sony Xperia XZs is another flagship of Sony. The device features the same design as Sony Xperia XZ. It has 5.2 inch screen size. The display is IPS LCD type and has full HD resolution. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. Sony has chosen to pack this phone with Snapdragon 820 to make it available in the market much earlier than Xperia XZ Premium. The phone packs the same camera as that of Xperia XZ Premium and also has all other same camera features. The phone comes with two memory options that are 32GB internal and 4GB of RAM and 64GB internal and 4GB of RAM. The phone weighs 165 grams and has 8.1 mm thickness. The device comes with Android Nougat 7.1 out of the box. The device packs 2900 mah non removable battery and supports Quick charging 3.0.

Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra:Sony Xperia A1Ultra is the company's mid range device. It is the next device of Sony's Ultra series. The device has a big screen of 6.0 inch. The display is IPS LCD type and has a full HD resolution. The device packs Mediatek Helio P20 processor which is successor to Helio P10. The phone comes with Android Nougat 7.1. The device has a 23 MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, phase detection and laser autofocus and LED flash. The camera lacks Optical Image Stabilization. It has a 16 MP secondary camera with f/2.0 aperture size. This front camera has Optical Image Stabilization. This is the second phone after HTC 10 which features OIS in it's secondary camera. The phone packs 2700 mah non removable battery and also supports fast charging. The device comes in two memory options, 32GB and 3GB of RAM and 64GB and 4GB of RAM. The phone weighs 188 grams and has 8.1mm thickness.

Sony Xperia XA1:Sony Xperia XA1 is also a device which company unveiled at MWC 2017. The device is getting very much fame due to it's very thin side bezels. The company is saying it's screen as "borderless edge to edge screen". So it looks really cool without any side bezels. The phone is having 5 inch display. The display has HD resolution and is of IPS LCD type. The phone is powered by the Mediatek Helio P20 chipset. The phone is having the same rear camera as that of Xperia XA1 Ultra. The secondary camera in it is 8MP with f/2.0 aperture but it lacks OIS. The phone weighs 143 grams and has a thickness of 8mm. The phone comes with Android Nougat 7.1 out of the box. The device packs 2300 mah non removable battery and also supports fast charging. The device has 32GB of internal storage and 3GB of RAM.